President Trump last week issued an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from WHO, but that did not take immediate effect. Leaving WHO requires the approval of Congress and that the U.S. meets its financial obligations for the current fiscal year. The U.S. also must provide a one-year notice.

Trump has frozen all travel and communications at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the CDC and the National Institutes of Health

President Donald Trump signed an executive order beginning the year-long process to leave the World Health Organization on his first day in office.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released some new flu data to the public on Friday, despite the Trump administration’s halt of nearly all scientific communication coming from federal health agencies.

The latest CDC alert says testing for bird flu should move more ... a professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. “It will help illuminate the current landscape of disease, and potentially pave ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is going dark, along with other federal agencies within the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This week, the returning Trump administration told these agencies to stop talking to the public—for how long, no one knows.

A flurry of scientific gatherings and panels across federal science agencies were canceled on Wednesday, at a time of heightened sensitivity about how the

The Trump administration told federal public health agencies like the CDC that they are not to communicate health messages for now. The hold includes memos, reports, online posts, website updates and other forms of communication. Scientific meetings were also canceled for the time being, including of advisory panels.

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Kennedy Jr., President Trump's pick for health secretary, has falsely linked vaccines to autism and argued people should have separate vaccination schedules based on their race.

President Trump said he would take health agencies in a new direction on the campaign trail and has chosen some controversial nominees to help him achieve his goal, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's pick for HHS secretary.

The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month. In a memo Tuesday, the acting